The Mississippi
Guitar Quartet
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Michael Boyd, Giovanni DeChiaro, Chas Evans and Steve
Kennedy Click above photo for promotional image Important
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Centaur Recording Artists The Mississippi Guitar
Quartet, founded by Giovanni
DeChiaro, Professor of Guitar at the University
of Southern Mississippi, is the first and only performing ensemble of its
kind in Mississippi. The quartet is
comprised of guitarists Michael
Boyd, Professor of Guitar at Jones Junior
College, Chas Evans, Professor of
Guitar at Holmes Community College and Mississippi College, and Steve Kennedy,
USM Graduate Teaching Fellow. The Mississippi Guitar Quartet presents a wide
variety of musical styles to include classical masterpieces of Pachelbel,
Bach, Mozart, Strauss and Bizet, ragtime favorites of Scott Joplin, popular
Broadway classics such as West Side Story, and well-known religious
selections. Many of the selections performed are arranged by the
members of the quartet. Mr. DeChiaro’s engagements have taken him
throughout the United States, Europe and South America, including
performances for Pope John Paul II at the Vatican in Rome and President Bill
Clinton at a special Christmas function at the White House. As a solo
performer, Mr. Boyd has performed throughout the Southeastern United States,
and as far as Argentina and Spain. Mr. Kennedy
and Mr. Evans perform as soloists regularly, and each have garnered top
honors in several state and regional festivals and competitions. The
Mississippi Guitar Quartet, now in its sixth season, has performed
extensively throughout the region, and are members of the Mississippi Arts
Commission Touring Artist and Education Developer roster. The Quartet is available for master
classes and workshops as well as concert performances. For more information on The
Mississippi Arts Commission, which helps provide grants for funding artist
performances and arts education development, or the Artists and Education
Developer roster, please contact them at (601)359-6030 or visit www.arts.state.ms.us |
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The debut recording of the Mississippi Guitar
Quartet is available from Centaur
Records and
features Pachelbel's Canon in D, Dowland's Lachrimae Pavane and Frog
Galliard, Saint-Saens Danse Macabre, Bizet's Overture to 'Carmen', Strauss'
Blue Danube Waltz, Vaughn Williams' Rhosymedre, Warlock's Capriol Suite,
Maxwell-Davies' Farewell to Stromness, Brouwer's Cuban Landscape with Rain,
and Joplin's The Entertainer. To purchase the quartet's CD,
visit: Centaur
Records, Amazon.com,
Barnes
and Noble.com, Tower Records.com, or other online music outlets. Look
for the Quartet’s follow-up recording featuring the ragtime favorites of
Scott Joplin will be released from Centaur in the near future. |
